An Arab-Israeli Diplomat Discusses the Current Wave of Terror in Israel
What does it portend?
November 5, 2015
Ben-Gurion and the Mufti: Mystery Solved
No, it wasn’t Amin Haj al-Husseini sitting next to Ben-Gurion.
Last week, the historian Martin Kramer reported on his discovery that a photograph he had circulated of David Ben-Gurion and his wife Paula, seated next to the grand mufti of Jerusalem Amin Haj al-Husseini, had been mislabeled: the person in Muslim clerical garb was not the mufti at all. Now Kramer has discovered his true identity in a 25-year-old journal article, where it was captioned: “Ben-Gurion alongside Sheikh Tawfiq al-Taybi, president of the Supreme Muslim Appeals Court, before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946.” (The committee was tasked with determining the fate of Mandatory Palestine.) Kramer writes:
November 5, 2015
An Israeli Professor Is Shouted Down at the University of Minnesota
Moshe Halbertal vs. the heckler’s veto.
Remembering Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq’s Controversial Would-Be Leader
He was “remarkably comfortable with American Jews.”
Five Centuries of Jewish Broadsides
With pictures.
Ben-Gurion and the Mufti: Mystery Solved
No, it wasn’t Amin Haj al-Husseini sitting next to Ben-Gurion.